UK built cars have a terrible reputation here on the mainland so I could write that I wouldn't touch a piece of crap built in Swindon... A claim like that would be as truthful as the claims about the Chinese built Honda's.
Don't know how UK built cars have managed to get a 'terrible reputation on the mainland' (us Brits call it the continent, or just 'Europe' - but that is not a compliment). Every survey I have seen from fleet operators, J D Power, warranty companies etc. puts British built Japanese models like Avensis, Qashqai, Civic and Jazz and also Jaguar at the top, and most European cars (except some BMW and Mercedes, but including VW) well down in the bottom half of the table, have never seen any French or Italian car above half way. The BMW mini which is built in UK is normally near the top as well. The truth is Britain has great workers but terrible managers, added to which our native car makers had great ideas that were engineered in the cheapest possible way and gave problems (hydrolastic suspension, great idea but very badly built), four valve heads in the Triumph Dolomite sprint (first in a production car) which was known as the BMW Basher because it was faster.